Customizing your desktop is really about making it look and work the way that suits your workflow, or at least so it looks nice to you, as opposed to accepting its default look and feel. Reader Georgacus didn't want to tweak his desktop too much, but he did want a few subtle changes, and once he made them, his Windows desktop felt much more personal, and a bit less like every other Windows system out there.

The best thing about Georgacus' desktop is that he didn't do terribly much to make it personal. No wealth of widgets on the desktop, no sidebars or anything—while we wouldn't call it "minimal," we would say it's personal, and sometimes that's all it takes. Here's how you can make yours look like his—or at least borrow a few design cues and build your own:

The Eclipse 2 Icon Pack to replace the default system icons in the taskbar

That's all to this one. A simple Windows theme, some new taskbar icons, and a gorgeous wallpaper (not to mention light use of Rainmeter to add a clock—which he's removed from the Taskbar) make for a good looking, simple, and easy to configure desktop. If you're new to Rainmeter and don't know how to set it up, check out our guide for some getting-started tips, or head to the original thread in our #featured-desktop forum to ask your questions.

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Do you have a good-looking, functional desktop that you want to see featured here? Submit it—along with where you got the wallpaper, skins, and geeklets—to us for review. We have two different ways you can share it with us:

Linux, Mac, Windows, all are welcome. Whatever you choose to use, include a description of how you made your desktop when you send it in. Without that, we can't tell others how to make it for themselves so they can be featured too!